Anthropology 2100 Lecture Notes - Aurignacian, Franz Boas, John Frere
31 Jan 2013
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Anthropology is the study of all humanity ancient and modern. Anthropology"s sub-fields are cultural, physical (biological), linguistic, and archaeology. Archaeology is the study of the human past through the traces of the past that exist in the present. Text-aided archaeology or historic archaeology is the study of ancient societies with the aid of written records and pre-historic or pre-contact archaeology focuses on societies that lack written records. Paleoanthropology is the anthropological study of the evolution of our species. Culture is the invented, taught, and learned patterns of behaviour of humans that is passed on from generation to generation primarily through the use of language and it is our primary way of adapting to our environment. Is sometimes seen as a system of interacting subsystems (technology, economy, etc) Material culture is the physical objects that humans manufacture. Cultural ecology is the study of culture as a means of adapting to the environment and early 20th century.
